5 articles
Every spring, cold seas ignite with diatom blooms — microscopic algae armoured in glass. The whole event often hinges on one scarce element: iron. Here's how.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Marine mucilage — the 'sea snot' that smothered the Sea of Marmara — is plankton slime gone rogue. What it is, why it happens, and the climate signal inside.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Why the sea turns green, turquoise or milky — and how ocean-colour satellites read chlorophyll from orbit to map blooms, currents and ocean life.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
'Every second breath comes from the ocean' — true, and incomplete. Here's the ocean's real oxygen budget, who pays in, and kelp's honest share.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Much of the ocean goes hungry for a single trace metal. How desert dust, glaciers and hydrothermal vents decide ocean fertility — and the fertilisation debate.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·